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Bringing Win 8 back to Earth
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Remove metro all the way including all it’s apps:
In PowerShell
Get-AppxPackage –AllUsers
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online
Add Start button:
Auto Logon:
http://www.howtogeek.com/112919/
Use Sysinternals to clean some more:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
Add some reg tweaks:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="8"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"MouseHoverTime"="8"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
"LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveSearch"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveTrack"=dword:00000001
"NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="2000"
More of the same here:
http://www.askvg.com/master-tutorial-to-make-your-windows-8-super-fast/
Get your CD from M$
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only
Managing power plans on win 7 with task manager.
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You can use Task scheduler to run powercfg.exe
use a command window to run powercfg /? so you can see the various commands available
running powercfg /l lists the codes “GUIDs” for your power schemes
running powercfg -s
I assume you are running Win7 [I think these items are the same in Vista but cannot check].
SSHD slow on login
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Does the IP you’re connecting from have reverse DNS on it?
When you connect to SSH, By default it will try to do a DNS lookup on the IP connecting and if it can’t find a record it causes a long delay when logging in.
If you want you can disable sshd from doing a reverse lookup by setting
UseDNS no
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarting sshd.
service sshd restart
Here is a small post on how to setup pflogsumm on your CentOS mail server running Postfix. It takes advantage of logrorate being called nightly by cron.
1. Install pflogsumm
# yum install postfix-pflogsumm
2. Run a test
# /usr/sbin/pflogsumm /var/log/maillog
3. Update /etc/logrotate.d/syslog. Add the following:
prerotate
pflogsumm /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog | mail -s "Postfix Log - `date`" [email protected]
endscript
And little script to send you log hourly if you send over 100 emails per hour.
Make sure to add it to your hourly cron job.
#!/bin/sh
hour_now=$(date | awk '{print $2,"", $3, substr($4,0,2)}')
var1=$(grep "$hour_now" /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog|pflogsumm)
if (( $(echo "$var1" | sed -n '/ delivered$/p' | tr -d '[:alpha:]') > 100 ));
then
echo $var1 | mail -s "Postfix Log - `date`" [email protected]
fi